Christianity prides itself on being a community and a brotherhood.
However, the moment someone turns away from their faith, either by finding another faith, or becoming an atheist, those who remain as Christians often turn on them like vipers, making comments like, "Well, he/she was never a real Christian to begin with", when the week before they would have embraced lovingly him as one of their own.
Why is that? Are Christians honestly that fickle?
2007-07-23 08:27:07 · 26 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Christianity defines "righteousness" within certain narrow and artificial limits, so anybody who goes beyond automatically becomes "unrighteous."
It hardly matters that they're not supposed to "judge, lest they be judged." It's part and parcel of the religion to be judgmental, for the reason above indicated. "Our Book says that X is a sin; and here's Y, in the very act. Why must he tempt God?" The standard way to avoid responsibility for being a judgmental prig, while continuing to be a judgmental prig, is to claim that you "hate the sin, but love the sinner." You disguise your judgmental priggishness as "concern" for the sinner's immortal soul. It's hypocrisy as fine art.
2007-07-23 08:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
because of the fact which you ask why. enable me to safeguard a sprint in case you will. some Christians deeply fairly mean stable to come again of it. how are you able to appreciate something is incorrect except some one tells you? valuable there is the obtrusive stuff like "do no longer play Russian Roulette with a semi-computerized." yet others are greater complicated. So by asserting do no longer try this or that we are hoping to maintain them from themselves. regrettably as you have observed and distinctive others it comes off much less like help and greater like harm. i'm sorry to disillusion all and sundry yet as a Christian it incredibly is very important which you recognize a thank you to choose. The Bible is packed with examples and the trick is to appreciate while to choose and while to no longer. human beings say Jesus did no longer choose and that i say it incredibly is faulty. He did no longer condemn. look at what he did contained in the Temple courts or how he taken care of people who ought to have been best the flock of Israel. yet even they weren't condemned had they softened their hearts they too might have won forgiveness and according to risk some did. How will we stability this? effortless. We ought to comprehend that what we do right here would be used against us or for us. We ought to attend to ourselves first and then with love attain out to those around us because of the fact the Spirit guides. If we receive opposition we enable them to bypass on their way and pray God will attain out to them and desire them properly.
2016-09-30 12:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by Erika 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that most Christians have a sense of pain when a friend turns away from the teachings of God. I had a friend in college do this and it was strange, I didn't become a viper, or at least I did not do so intentionally. I do know that my relationship with that person lingered for a while and then we just stopped seeing each other. I would say that the separation made us both uncomfortable and and was not necessarily one sided.
2007-07-23 08:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by L.C. 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
People falling out of the faith are a threat to Christians whose own assurance teeters on the brink.
"Bob was a really great Christian. If he could fall, I could fall too..."
Nothing zaps such ideas dead like a vicious attack against Bob for being an awful imposter.
The best defense is a good offense, eh?
2007-07-23 09:23:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Saying that is turning on them - like a viper? I can think of much worse said about unbelievers, by their former friends, who turn to Christ. As long as what is said is done not disparagingly then there is nothing wrong with it.
2007-07-23 08:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Once saved Always Saved "variety of Fundamentalist Protestant Christianity needs to label defectors and apostates as 'never ever really Christian" because those who die repudiating Christianity or who die in serious sin seem to disprove their view of eternal security and "perseverence of the saints".
2007-07-23 08:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no kidding im an atheist and so many people are mean to me since i stopped being a christian but they don't say i was never a real christian, what they say is that im just in a teenage rebellion phase and ill come around some day. watever.
2007-07-23 08:32:52 · answer #7 · answered by Smee 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily fickle, just human. Being a Christian doesn't mean we're perfect.
2007-07-23 08:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by Machaira 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They will turn, or at least forget you, over almost anything that they cannot deal with; whether that be leaning away from the faith, asking hard questions, or having to face mortality.
2007-07-23 08:37:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some turn on each other for almost no reason at all.
I was with a couple at dinner the other night who spotted a fellow church member across the restaurant and decided to sit as far from them as possible because they were "strange." Blew me away.
2007-07-23 08:31:35 · answer #10 · answered by Spencer Y 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christians are not fickle- just judgmental and critical.
Keep in mind that most Christians attend church because of what others will think of them, not because they genuinely want to know God.
Organized religion is all about control.. it always has been.
If it was truly about God- then they would practice unconditional acceptance and love, not judgements.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
2007-07-23 08:35:04 · answer #11 · answered by Kaybee 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋